Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 37

- THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 28, 1500 P IMELY REAL ESTATE COSSIP Winter Will Deveiop More Building Thas in Many Years. GREAT DEAL NOW IN PROGRESS Paving for the Year i nded and Large Amount Projected for Vext Year, Mach Out in Dundes. Paving, whish Bears a close reiation ‘o wilding Is ever for this year and side- walk bullding and repairing abeut com plsted. Hugh Murphy. who had the con- act for repaving the streets in the business section of Omaha has completsd nis last job and put away his tools and machinery for the year A large amount of work has been done but moers & planned for next yesr when an offort will be made to g=t the comtractors to start early. Among the big jobs sentemplated for next yoar is the paving of the streets of Dundes. Petitions have been signed for & majerity of the strests and an effort Is being ex arted to have all tanded 0 so that the work may start first thing n the spri » ess Nterests are preparing peut to have Tenth street paved next year fro Farnam street to the viaducts leading o he depots. For several years thers has been derable compiaint that there was good road from the business center st Omaha to these depots. This fault ims been remedied by the p & of ee eross streets and by fxing up Harn street, But business men want Tenth street repaved. This street was paved some years ago with stone, but it 's ineven and rough and needs a new surface the preliminary work at- the con pet & cal ey Omaha will see mors large bullding aper- ations under way this winter than for many years and a large number of work- men will be Mept busy. Among the Irwe bufldings on which work will not stop are the Dougias county court house, the Bran- deis theatsr and office building. the Mor- W theater. the City Nacional bank build ng. the. new Wead-Bridges-Graham hotel and several garages — . Members of the Omanhn Real Estate ox *hange are becoming enthusiastic the plan started by the new president. F. W Wead, of having a paper read and dis cussed at each meeting. A beginning was made inst week when D. L. Johnson spoke »war on wills. The interest of the members in Mr. Johnson's talk was shown by the questions they asked and the comments which wers made. Mr. Johnson is not a member of the sxchange and the rest of the papers will be dellvered by members. but the president conceived the idea of call- ing n an outsider for the fret taik to give the real estate men more time in which to prepare their talks. Dowatows property coniinues to changs hands as well as outlying property, show 0% 4 hemithy state of affairs in the real ssiate world. Several of the heavier land hoiders are contimiousiy buying n the out- skirts of the business district, evidently -ounting on the business section spreading UL to take in some of the streets whieh are now used as resident street Hastings & Heyden have taken out buiid- ng permits for thirteen sew frame dweil- ngs that they will erect. Following are he locations and the cost: At 207 Lothrop, 2500 ar M0 Miumi three at 32000 ¢ at 392325 Vinton. four at $R.000 ch; &t ST Corny, two at S0 each; i\t @8 Norts Thirty-fifth, one at $2.600; at e~ Meredith, two at $2000 each. J B Good will erect at 22 Evans street a frame dweiling to cost 52308 BACON BAT PICNIC POPULAR Young Women of Hastern Colleges Induige in = Stunt that is at Lenst Ortginal. Englishman is on record as having ne on 1 bacon bat when in How was ™ he was asked apon his on - plenty of bacon,” was his response I didn’t see any bat This stgr sung told and enjoved among & group of collegs girls aboard a ferryboat bound for the Jersey shore gwmn packages and bundles suggested icnic edibles and 4 lark of some kind. 0, not & lark, for as the laughter sub- e ome of the pienickers took a firmer srasp on her square-edged package, through whose wrapping silek and shin as were beginning t show - Iation of gresse from within. She firmer grasp as she said: T certainiy hepe there is going o be plenty of bmcon on this oceasion. I've made up my mind that I'm going to lend ny every endeavor toward making this event noteworthy for the bat even more than the bacon.” Applause from her companions showed At Ner sentiment was the popular one. The bat was to be continuaily tospite the Englishman. Na tns “What in evidenc: wdinary lark ® A bhay rymakers it is just what regular national institutfon & any rate among esstern and simply beeause we cullege n N York we be deprived of the fun of it “We renlly have the best place to be found anywhere, we thiak. All we have to 0 I8 0 go up to the Ome Hundred and rtieth street ferry, cross the Hudson hem we Bave the best picnfe ground e wortd at our disposal, wheth, a bacon bat or anything else Sut what ie & ‘DRcon bat’ ™" refteratod e questioner; and the batter—f such. in teed, m bat ™ vhen quests it sounds repeated one of ned. “Why. like, and it's & sutumn, sollege gris, Bappen to be in ® not going to and e the tochmical name—carefully ex amined her package to Ascertain wheth t was right side up with ae spilling be- re replying Why, 3 bacon bat is a. bat where the sredominant characteristic i bacon,” she said. “Of course. the main object is o #°t out into the woods and have a regular ark—l mesn Dat-with & campfiee and 013 1o sut and songs and all that, but it Al ninges around the baeon. We know dearest pluce up near Fort Lee. where ditions are perfect. It looks right out over the water and Te are great big dat recks fean and smooth, the most destrabie bas- quet tables imaginable. But the great thing s the oven—a natural In venlity it is & big holow stump ‘And Wl these packuges your friends are carTying—ihey contain baven ™ WO, indeed,” laughed she of ihe grese streaiis. “We are ail fond of bucom, when on & bat but handly that fond. I am cwTying e bacan. The rest have pickies and coekies and cakies and sandwiches Qoviled cgws and marshmailows and chips and oranges and ofives — pertectly ven it “omey and bake their bacon n fires made n ovens wcooped out of the sand. but most of as prefer the Palisades; 't '8 more ke mn make more nolse. to when it & plenic and we say nothing of the beauty of it puts on its gorgeous autumn dress Why dom't kmow how mAnY poems Rave been inspired on these bmcon bats perfactly beautiful posms. some of them to. See that girl over here with the @ven Bat? She writes one svery Ume she goes—a brand new ome So they are bason batters, are they said & reguiar patron of the ferry ‘ater on. € Man't know the technical term they ap- ply to themselves. but I've notieed th always suceeed In having a good time BICYCLE STYLE OF RAILROAD Developments in the for Speed on Sing Temok Gyroscope Car Ratl Some months aso hibited in England a model gyroscoDe car Operated on 3 single rall which performed wonders of squilibrium and speed. It was regarded as 3 marvel which promised to revelutionize transportation If it Dossibie w expand the carrying unit the modei size to large proportions. then but little has been hean #yroscope car. but evidently the has been improving time rennan ex wors from “nce f the inventor 118 ‘he deve spment of his device for now comes word of the trial of & fowty-foot passenger car with two score of ovcupants. carried at track and ot Mgh speed along s single rall around a circular track with a me-eighth of & mile o “ables Teport a perfect success. the car being operated ~without hitch or mishap of am kind, maintaining & perfect balance even when the ;assengers of ame accord moved to one stde or the other This demon- tration is regarded am estabit re practica of the one-ral In the new Sremnan model, which is ten fest wide and thirteen feet in height welghs twenty ns ampt the power is whieh it 2 gasoiine angine. not om e guiding wheels scopes in‘\operation. firee feet and & and together weig! me They spin at the rate of ons a minute. Improved pneu- devices sure the perfect operation of the gyroscopes and reduce the inci dental friction to s negligible minimum. It beileved that whe: nce sent to the maximum of tation ese wheeis would pin 8o jong after the cutting off of power that there wouid be no possibiiity of an accident through the derangement of the maehinery. for the car will remain upright on the single ril as long as the gyro- scopes are in motion The advantages of the gEYTOScOpe mMono- il system as far has been devel- oped in theory are the higher rate of speed that s ssible with safety than the double-rail basts and the greater cheapness of construetion The nighe: safe speed—estimated at fully 100 miles an hour—is possibie wi monorail by reason of the fact that thers is no dan- gor vibration from side to side 1o cause deraliments The grroscope insures stemd- iness In all conceivable circumstances On the construction side a great gain is expectsd in the silmination of expensive srading work. tunneling and other means if avolding obstacies now necessary n the comstructfon of lines. The manorail CAr can negoliate curves which are im- possible under the present system. Mr Brennan's model car ciimbed grades be- yond the recognizsed Nmit of traction en- ®ines of both the lvcomorives and eles types. Thus in the comstruction of monorail ne the permanent way s paratively inexpensiver Tt tw the Imventor that lines of thik type be run through country where now rai roading is virtuaily impossible by remson of the naturai obstacies and the 'mmense expense of overcoming them. So great an scopes meter tons. are claimed by n advantage would this be in such coun- tries as upper India. where rafiroad ocon- struction s attended with the gravest dUffieultion, ¢ s anxiously the deviee for at the British government awaiting the perfection of ts installment in the more »f Hindostan. —Washing- TRAGEDY OF LITTLE HEATHEN Fancy and Fact Weaved Abuut Seuintor of Wil Hken. Bright littie “Billiken.” with his red swish of hair and his queer cross-cut smile, 1as amused millions. In thousands of cozy rmers and parifors all over the globe he “sets and smiles.” and peopie of all kinds and conditions tekie his toes, according to the directions on the box. You would never suspect it from his face, but the heart of “Bfliken” is trou- bied. and tragedy broods over his flaming 'ead. Everybody knows that “Billlken” s “the god of things as thew ought to be,” Hut it s that comes from Kan. sas City is 16 is a0t the god they thought e A pretty little tradition about the popular little heathen. Thers was onee a struggling artist, & beauttzal young giri—so the stary goes—who thought she possessed great talent, was not able on for works. Kan- fie salons, and of art moged somewhere between Iroad poster and a bock beer adver tisement. At last. when had come to @ wolf was grow!- besutifu against & he & T has grown up to secure recogni her she the end of her row and ng at e door, the 1el protest deciaved: “T'm tired god of things as they it things as they ought te be.” she modeled “Billiken” for herseif. The quatnt ittle idol changed uck. Friends begged for it, strangers were swept away at the first giance. and the children romes oried tor “Billik the fortunate seuipt sculptress cruel warid of all this talk of ‘the are’ I want a god her of & Into ® poured As the idols nd sold for a very was supposed to be Rocketeller thousand he lap of wealth in v ab cm pouring n o n a momey a stesdy at stresa:n ~en ilar, wesith storm at was the way the story weat wre, then Bur sk first on Miss Florence who that pie Pretx. ‘he Kansas City Billiken. is angry the sight of Avstroyed n the and would walk a avold seeing his ugly little avers. And wherefore® Weil City dispatches that of a sands of dollars Billiken has bre girl who modeied him royaity of only thirty 3 month. Think of It—$0 Billiken! Her ides is that there i» & Bil- iken © and (hat she has been shut out ke a common stockholder or an ultimate consumer. And time she looks at him Billlken seems « be smiling sar- castieally at her allowing nim o & nto the hands of the Philistines. Twas ever thus The way of the artist and the inventor 's hard. If his work is & fatlure, he gets the bump. If it & 2 sue- cess. he s allowed to put his name on the an this st tisgusted rar Jesigned mad. She hates naster- Billlieen block 1o face Piece T have avers neuse state aght, the getting a ittle dollars for fame and aus measly ust very “Help!™ nterrupted the questionsr ~Bug | Abel while the kind gentiemen of business wihy call it & bacon bat? Why not & pickie | #°¢ Out thelr mowers and rake In the bat or & —" profita. I’y aot the first time n this | “Becsase. the proud guar. | WOPEY-turvy wor'd thac “the god of (Lings t.--t--—.“n-m--m-'uwv-mm'n-‘nn.-uhuon we cuok his ideais and become “the god of things ome giris whe prefer to go to|es ey sre—Baitimore Suam NEWS OF THE BUSY HOME BUILDER Becor o sow Getting Best Results in Home Building Artaur C. Clausen, Architect. Simplicity does not mean barrencess. Make simpiicity as beautiful as you please or can. But be sure it be done for beauty’'s sake and not for show.—Willam Morris. In another article the writer has poimted THE BEE'S PLAN BOOK rou are to avoid: but do not copy it—that is architectural plagiarism." lie size of a city lot usually deecides the fon of the porch. If the lot is very o out in some detall the advisability of adorn- Through an arrangement with Ar- broad. the porch may be piaced on the Ing the entrance of & home. The subjest || thur C. Clausen, architect, the read- | Wde of the houss, where it hes mere ers of The Omala Hee can obtain a seciusion and does not precipitate aone n is dweit upon purely from a standpeint of capy of his bemutiful book. the pubiic’s gaze. As a rule. however. the S o T S S, SS—— Sy “TEE ART, SCINNCE AND SEN- ot 18 not much wider than the bouse and ing. ne further utility than to make the . B b i Ay ot gy e 2 Pefstynt Seer 5 the: Bolps. A sukjest G, position it serves the double purpose of ST BTN Sy B B o Shw e for Oue Deilar. perch amd entrance. The columns showld Pt S Pt be properly proportioned. This last feature A home has two centers around which This boek centains forty-eix chap- = whese: e Sl ton ofiul, Belns & the family gathers and about which we s and W Liusiraiens, printed ou el el W SR T S retain the tondest recollections atter loav- || BeSTY snameied paper. wits cover || TPSRoRATe mMeRs b meriy hem too ing it. They are the front porch and fire- | jracucel side of homebullding, gt ne them. It is poor aconomy to g0 sstray piace. As the ome is the center of family ng compiete informaden an the | som tne well known classic standards for ife i winter. the other is the beginning || Disnniug and designing of every kind :olumns to reduce thefr cost. There is but and end of it in summer. “Bveryane loves || T WO R O O e A sne proper way to butld the coumns of a lover” and the lovers’ chief delight is to istic butiding !t on sctentific lines each order of architecture, make them so. sit befere a blazing frepiace or linger at and o Jlnl“; smoitary conditions “olmuns are sometimes placed singly and eventide on the pureh. There is something | 500 WoOmEl. THo swihor O the beok sometimes doubie. If the open spaces be- about the coxy firetight of the former or || builder advies on subjects such as | tween the coumns are to be very wide. it the paie moon light om the latter that buying the iot, pianning the home, s best plan the columns double. A Drings out those ntimete sentiments which _;'n‘:ju""';"";f'}‘;:m;*m":lhfie stone foundmtion. cement floor and the sun with all its brightness and ma- doesn, winduws, steirweys fire- wrought lron raffings all add materially jesty fails 10 bring forth places, exteriors. interior finish, etc.. to the original cost. but will save the There is a clams of architeots in the | Are faken up in detall and treated constant repairs of an ail wood porch. country that midicule the ppearance and | IO Eeed Sommen emen. Wesny ol In grouping darmers or perch spuewn_ an itility of our medern piaswa or paren are answered and the book should N e S "l W ot Dt Shlinis. o & Oulines 1hat it B Drove a great heip to those whe are touse with a porch and pertice soives much easier to design & house in good || SSeut o oian & home. It iy pro- sy~ cagi ol g et ng - proportion without a porch than with one. Arthur C. Clausen, 1126-%7-3 Lumber Fos 2 B Gmdan e and that the porch is often ruination Exchange. Minneapolls it of giniuiinesn: ahent: 1. suveyliy % mpression (o a paaserby that the own of a house from an architectural stamd. | —_— e —— A st e Sy g o sy g ” | % & frequent entertainer and has erected B i Ao I W e i e v | this menument as a fitting welcome for that the perch or Diamss i seidom foung | "M4INE s the country home. To bulld & |nis guests. The family poreh shouid be b ountry home without & porch Is as much more retired and is placed on the side, Mot gwow. e S wan, o | an anomaiy as “Romes and Juilst” without | when posstble. It is strictly for the family Where the laggin takee ft place. It i not | po, 1se. If more seciusion is desired than the the eniy lugxury created for Americans by 7 considering the pareh, the {llustration | gverage poreh affords. a sereem of climb- Americans and not known in Burope or here used to show in conereta form the ing vines can be soom grown and serves elsewher=, and f the Ameriean home following comments and eriticisms, should the purpose admirably as weil as enhanc- bullder wants & porch on which to rest on | no¢ necessarily be taken es & complate ing the besuty of the porch, provided it & summer sfterneen or sit in the cool of | egndurd of porch design. It i not. “Con- | is not oversrows and hid completely. thus the evening breese. it is 1P to the archi: | guit modern work. as it m serve to adding a orsaken and gloomy appear- tect” to provide ane and make it at onee | suggest to you the course of study to be ance to it. For this purpese nothing s beautiful, homelike. and of good propor-| pursued. as it may estabish a standard | better i fhe tvy. The clematis. wisteria. tion—{Irat in itaeif and then in ifw relation | of merit vou are to attain. ae it allustrated | honeysuckie. climbing rose or wild cucum. to the house. the modus operand! of the ruse buflder's | her nes can also be used with varying Among other American creations in home craft. and lastly as [t shows mistakes offect } warmer than T2 degrees with only % or # per cent of humidity Important Home Facts oo oo all A wdiid | perature from ® degraes costs B per sent of the entire cost of fuel us It re- W E RN e wuires T desrees of heat to make vou feel comfortable when the average humidity s 5 ent. and you could still save At the suggestion of humidity vou are outdoors to abaut 3 per cent in the aver 2 Ue iibe eoat of et I8 you tkely hrow up vour hands and se Age home is the cause of probabiy @ Der maintain a temperature of @6 degrees Wwith None it rome. . » - f s water and steam one & grees of humidit it the mostymportant subjeets and o * ways mrger percentage of | The time is not far distant when every 0 be mast carefully considered by ram . ising th Wn indirect |home witl bave tw appitances adiation” and brinis wsh aid from out These will be a heat or or thermo- B e e i IK. - 1 e e e o s et o, Gvuttee s i " sleep out of doors and spend | ouigoy and by this method but Nitle of |AMOUNT of moisture. and & heating plant sur lits out of doors, this article will 50! the humidity is lost by coming in contact B0 & whether ® a furnace. hot = ouel et Wlasesl Set WIS T Ittt Besles faces. A WAter or stemm piant that eannot produce order that you may quickly grasp the TUuber of other methods are -mploved, T @ (0 B per ;,’"‘v,:m“'f;.".:‘;,rn'm: meaning of humidity—if® per cent means DU Dever in ST D PRSI | ains or sufficlent moisture to produce 0. oL precipitation. Seventy per cent of metetu Mas been carsfully fgured w: AT LEAST FIVE ROADS READY . Wiy we should always hav o main. N hame should - Bpuraiad At st of malstume Wil @ive & very Qe do-| TSIV SN and In the onfiaeny fur- Plans for Enlargieg the Wew of cumiere. Thirty pur et of weie- | S OF U SISRTREE (AT saie—- Unten Depot. ture or humidity is found only in the most | . e water pan s put o low dewn| TS cafiing @ an expenditure af arid regions of the world—is i» in Ar oo agwaihs: very B water with ‘."“ e Vi Yot embimpiied Ny e aad & Dusil wlley. CoMfurwlo- |y fire in Wee furnace. Under cerats age- | 00 DBl Peific Ratiread company. we Rikce whers it is practically impossible '0 | giions most warm air furnaces will evap- e lm- S Uy Randh of e W ob Mive for any lngth of ume Our govern- grate abeur two puils of water per day i, C 0 Of the seven rouds using the local ment as taken up the question of Rumidity | the water pane are Didced high up and use | POt % 4 terminal. Answers favortug or Quite thoroughiy. and without quoting from | from two to three waterpuns and keep | “PPOMAE the propossd improvements are any spesial suthorits, facts which are eas- |them filled every day and occcastonaily | *Ueeted 10 arvive early in the week. and iy acoessibie. it has been found that with serub them our fo | within ten days it is theught the fae of kesp them clemn snd pure. Most people abuse the water pan relative humidity s from % W 2 per ceni By seidom. If ever, cleaning it out and Wy o bomes (hus heated. This is about, what filing it enly when they happen (o think ihe average Dumidity ia. as above stated, in Of It the most arid reglons of the world. The sudden change flum @ per cent humidity hot water. steam and furnace heat, the With per cent of Bumidity & tempera [owre ot @ Sagresn wii maie you teel the plan will be known The Union Pacific has the assurance that at lemst five of the roads entering the station will spprove the expenditure but |1t i» femred that some of the smaller mads ' will opposs ihe Mlan because of the emur moue cxpense. i Northwestern Expanded Metal Co. 84 Van Bursn St., Chicage Manutacturers of EXPANDED METAL the Standard Material for CONCR REINFORCEME We Make Them and can duplic Press Brick manufactured in the world—aiso Save You Money Hydraulic-Press Brick Co. 330 Bee Building. Let us show you samples. in Omaha te any *Uniform heat-- | Cleanliness too-- | Commends an Elec- | | tric Flat Iron to you.” Pay-As-You-Enter Cars Will be running on the Farnam-Dundee Line, Sunday, Nov A good opportunity to try them and become familiar with the pay-as-you-enter method. - Omaha & Council Bluffs StreetRailway Company 28 HUMIDITY! Why ifve in a home when vou are breathing oniy 24 to 10 per cent of moisture, when nature provides that you require 70 per cent to e main heaith If you have a stemn or hot water hester, we pur in complete— PIN INDIRECT RADIATION d bring in pure, fresh air from outside. f you use a warm air furnace we provide all sizes of water pans, frames and covers, and install rhese where they will evaporate suf- ficient moisture to keep the air laden with from 50 ta 70 per cent of Bumidi Omaha Stove Repair Works Both ‘Phones. 1208-08 Dougias Street. Robert Uhling, President. Hugo Schmidt, Vice-President. George A. Wilcox, Treasurer. €. M. Eaton, Secretury. 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